Natural History & Science
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[A Group of Six Engravings of Flowers, Insects and Fruits].
[MERIAN, Maria Sibylla].Original price £10,000.00 - Original price £10,000.00Original price £0.00£10,000.00£10,000.00 - £10,000.00Current price £10,000.00| /Superb engravings which depict the metamorphoses of South American insects and the exotic plants on which they feed.Maria Sybilla, daughter of the...
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A pair of Still Lifes of Roses in Vases
[SCHOOL OF REDOUTE] -Original price £9,750.00 - Original price £9,750.00Original price £9,750.00£9,750.00£9,750.00 - £9,750.00Current price £9,750.00| /a beautiful example from the school of 'the Raphael of flowers', the most celebrated botanical artist of his day; Redoute's patrons included two E...
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A bouquet of roses.
POISSANT, Adele.Original price £9,500.00 - Original price £9,500.00Original price £9,500.00£9,500.00£9,500.00 - £9,500.00Current price £9,500.00| /A lovely example of 19th century flower painting in fine condition.Adele Poissant was a female miniature artist, who worked in Paris and sent seve...
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[A Group of Six Tulips].
BUCHOZ, Pierre Joseph.Original price £9,000.00 - Original price £9,000.00Original price £0.00£9,000.00£9,000.00 - £9,000.00Current price £9,000.00| /The tulips illustrated by Pierre Joseph Buchoz in these beautifully observed engravings are examples of rectified, or broken tulips that caused th...
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A Monograph of the Coraciidae
DRESSER, Henry Eeles.Original price £9,000.00 - Original price £9,000.00Original price £0.00£9,000.00£9,000.00 - £9,000.00Current price £9,000.00| /[ornithology] one of 250 copies. A scarce monograph published in an edition of 250 copies only.Keulemans was the last of the great bird illustrator...
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A Group of Seven Apples
POITEAU, A. & TURPIN, P.Original price £8,500.00 - Original price £8,500.00Original price £8,500.00£8,500.00£8,500.00 - £8,500.00Current price £8,500.00| /Seven plates from 'One of the finest and rarest books on fruit' (Dunthorne p.192). This series takes its title from Duhamel's Traité of 1768, it i...
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A Group of Six Hand-Coloured Etchings of Parrots
[MANETTI, Saverio.Original price £8,500.00 - Original price £8,500.00Original price £0.00£8,500.00£8,500.00 - £8,500.00Current price £8,500.00| /Manetti was an Italian physician, botanist and ornithologist. Among his works is the treatise on birds, Ornithologia methodice digesta or Storia n...
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[A Group of Six Mezzotints of Tulips].
WEINMANN, Johann Wilhelm.Original price £8,500.00 - Original price £8,500.00Original price £0.00£8,500.00£8,500.00 - £8,500.00Current price £8,500.00| /An attractive collection of fine plates, being one of the earliest examples of colour printing.Weinmann (1683-1741) was a Regensburg apothecary wh...
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[Series of Four Grapes].
BROOKSHAW, George.
Original price £8,000.00 - Original price £8,000.00Original price £0.00£8,000.00£8,000.00 - £8,000.00Current price £8,000.00| /For Brookshaw's most famous work "Pomona Britannica" or a "Collection of the Most Esteemed Fruits at Present Cultivated in this Country; Together ...
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[A Group of 8 Watercolours of Exotic Fruit].
[CHINESE EXPORT WATERCOLOURS ON PITH PAPER].Original price £8,000.00 - Original price £8,000.00Original price £0.00£8,000.00£8,000.00 - £8,000.00Current price £8,000.00| /A fine group of Chinese export watercolours showing exotic fruit.Pith came into use for painting to satisfy the increasing demand for small, inexp...
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[A Group of four engravings of Flowers, Insects and Fruits].
[MERIAN, Maria Sibylla].Original price £8,000.00 - Original price £8,000.00Original price £0.00£8,000.00£8,000.00 - £8,000.00Current price £8,000.00| /Superb engravings which depict the metamorphoses of South American insects and the exotic plants on which they feed.Maria Sybilla, daughter of the...
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Specimens of the flora of South Africa by a lady.
ROUPELL, Arabella E.Original price £8,000.00 - Original price £8,000.00Original price £8,000.00£8,000.00£8,000.00 - £8,000.00Current price £8,000.00| /Spectacular South African flora. Roupell (1817-1914) was married to an East India Company official who in 1843 was posted to the Cape for a period ...
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An Essay About the Origine & Virtues of Gems,
BOYLE, Robert.Original price £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £0.00£7,500.00£7,500.00 - £7,500.00Current price £7,500.00| /First edition. The 'beginning of the modern development in knowledge of crystal structure' (Fulton).Robert Boyle (1627-1691), a natural philosopher...
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[A Group of Six Owls]:
NOZEMAN, Cornelius.Original price £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £0.00£7,500.00£7,500.00 - £7,500.00Current price £7,500.00| /Nozeman's work, Nederlandsche Vogelen was the first comprehensive account of the avifauna of Holland and the most expensive book for sale in Holla...
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The Roses.
THORNTON, Robert John (publisher).Original price £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £7,500.00£7,500.00£7,500.00 - £7,500.00Current price £7,500.00| /First state. Robert John Thornton (?1786-1837) was a prolific medical author and became a Doctor of Medicine at St Andrews University and licentiat...
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British Birds; A Naturalists Sketch Book; British Mammals; Game Birds and Wild Fowl of Great Britain and Ireland,
THORBURN, Archibald.Original price £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £0.00£7,500.00£7,500.00 - £7,500.00Current price £7,500.00| /A Fine collection of limited edition titles by the acclaimed artist archibald Thorburn F.Z.S (1860 -1935), a Scottish artist renowned for his accu...
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The Natural History of British insects.
DONOVAN, Edward.Original price £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £0.00£7,500.00£7,500.00 - £7,500.00Current price £7,500.00| /With over 500 hand-coloured plates. The work that established Donovan's reputation. Each volume contains high quality plates illustrating the life-...
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